In a side of the square lies the statue of Jan Žižka, a leader of the Hussite movement, one of the few military commanders in the history of the world to have never lost a battle. Today, his name is found in the square in Tábor. Situated on a hilltop, with the square right on the summit, and near the lake called Jordan, after the biblical river, the city was founded in the spring of 1420 as a centre of the Hussite revolutionary movement. Initially regular, it later had the tendency to develop organically, and the shape of the square points to this. The streets have been designed in a zigzag on purpose, so that the enemy would have a hard time reaching the centre. Although it is hard to see in the photograph, the square is sloped, which adds a new dimension to its space.

Founded in 1354, on the spot where, in a thick forest, two roads crossed next to waterways at the border between Moravia, Bohemia and Austria, Tel, called Teltsch in German, has the misfortune of experiencing a great fire two centuries later. The city is quickly rebuilt following the old plan, but with modifications which take into account the evolution of building styles and techniques. The Gothic castle is remade in Renaissance style and the lofts are built for the houses in the square. The houses receive painted façades, then later replaced in the 18th century with rococo and baroque ones. The medieval Gothic arch on the ground floor remains unchanged. It is continuous, all the houses in the square are united by it. Two churches will be built and a plague column will be dedicated to Saint John Nepomuk, flanked by two fountains. Towards the end of the 18th century time suddenly stops in Tel, with the end of its glory age and of its economic development. The city reaches our times without changes, unaffected by industrialisation and, through some miracle, without socialist blocks. It is straight out of a book of folk tales. The map of the city is practically synonymous with the triangular square. One step outside of it carries you to the yellow canola fields of the Bohemian hills.

Třeboň, called Wittingau in German, has one of the best preserved medieval squares in Bohemia. In fact, only the shape dates from medieval times, since the current state, with Renaissance and Baroque houses, is due to the flourishing fish trade of the 14th century. Starting from the middle of the 14th century, the natural landscape around the city has been gradually transformed by human intervention. The marshlands have given way to a dense network of over 500 lakes, grouped in 16 aquatic systems, today a paradise returned to wilderness and populated with rare species of plants and animals. The largest of these lakes is found right near the city and is tied to the name of the Rosenberg family, the owners of the medieval burg. Like all historical cities in Bohemia and Moravia, the square contains a plague column, a Renaissance fountain, the tower building of the city hall.

Like in many other small, out of the way places, the square is called just Square. Náměstí in Czech. And Štramberk is yet another example of a place where the town is its square. Aside from the row of houses that define its perimeter, only two or three streets are added to the map. A cylindrical tower, called Trúba, remnant of a castle about which few things are known, dominates the settlement, perched up on the wooded hill nearby. Everything reminds one of a fairy tale, from the forests, to the castle and the square, with a large number of wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries also adding to the local cultural heritage. The land where Štramberk lies is called Valašsko, from the name of the populace migrating here in waves, along the Carpathians, from Transylvania and, perhaps, from Bukovina. If the language of the Vlachs has been lost along the way, and they were slavicised, some customs survived for a time and traditional building techniques were transmitted, taken and adapted by the local craftsmen, either Czech or German. The wooden houses clearly remind one of wooden Romanian architecture from Transylvania. A number of local settlements had such centres, but the wooden houses have been replaced by stone ones, usually Baroque in style. At Štramberk there is the largest number of Vlach style wooden houses, as they are called here, leading to an interesting architectural reservation. The square is also linked to the preparation of local cakes called “Štramberk ears”, which, by law, can only be made here. It is said that they have been called thus because the people of medieval Štramberk thought that they were similar to the ears of captured Tatar soldiers, during the time of Tatar raids.